You can down vote this comment all you like, but it's just Steve's opinion, and you can't be wrong about your own opinion. :) However, this is, anecdotally, wh

You can down vote this comment all you like, but it's just Steve's opinion, and you can't be wrong about your own opinion. :) However, this is, anecdotally, what people say after they start using rust heavily. I've heard it from quite a lot of people. It's like turning on all the jslint/tslint's as hard errors. Yes, it's painful to start with... but, as you relax, and let the compiler to the hard work of checking things, you can confidently write code without worrying about a certain entire set of domain concerns, because the tooling is taking care of it. Sure, I'd love it if there was a 'alt-enter, fix this' for rust errors in [my editor of choice for rust], and no one is saying, 'oh hey, rust is super easy to learn!'. ...but more and more (as the ecosystem matures) rust is being used to Get Stuff Done, not just to write little toys; and the people using it to Get Stuff Done aren't complaining about how hard it is, they're <3'ing it. (Of course, I disagree on the web-apps front; I feel like that's still very painful with the 15+ frameworks out there fighting / breaking changes / being abandoned; but at the very least its starting to look like a few plausible stable options are emerging; and I admit this is survivor-bias, where the people who didn't like it gave up before they started to get productive... but, I think the idea that 'rust is hard always' isn't true at all)